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The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City

Imagine a city like Los Angeles disappearing from the map completely. That's exactly what happened to Chaohu, a city in eastern China's Anhui province with a similar population — about 4 million. The people have remained, but the city has vanished in an administrative sleight of hand.
— npr.org

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this has been happening around the world and around the time. cities disappearing are much more normal in comaprision with countries disappeared or born. This is still happening currently. And even AIA awarded prizes for these projects (or acts in more larger views)

Just looked at a Chinese administrative map and almanac that I have. Chaohu is a huge prefectural region consisting of 4 counties, much of it running deep into the actual urban areas of those 3 other towns it is being merged with. Most of it is conurban, adjacent to those three other cities. The actual town of Chaohu (as we in the US think of urban places) is only 140,000. It looks like they dissolved the region, not the town.

I find the lack of public notification/consultation to be bizarre, but the move actually makes some sense from a purely spatial sense.